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      foksthery @GF
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      @GF …that is brilliant actually.

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        WhiteRaven @GF
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          Wizz @WhiteRaven
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          @WhiteRaven

          …I mean, pretty cheerily optimistic to think we’ll still be around in a thousand years tbh. I’m all for smashing the swastikas and dinky little eagles, shitting on the uniforms, whatever helps you live your best life now and keeps that garbage out of the hands of actual living nazis and their shitty sympathizers. The hypothetical future archaeologists can make do with pictures and video. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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            Pavel @WhiteRaven
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            @WhiteRaven I think museums around the world have enough of it; we don’t need it sitting in antique shops.

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              hellfrog
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              In a museum, it’s history.

              In a home, it’s memorabilia. We don’t need nazi memorabilia.

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                Pavel @hellfrog
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                @hellfrog said in RL Peeves:

                In a museum, it’s history.

                In a home, it’s memorabilia. We don’t need nazi memorabilia.

                I can understand it being at home if it was, say, seized from Germany during the war by a person who actually fought in that conflict. A token of “we kicked their fascist ass” is totally fine, in my book. But once that person has passed away, it should be put in an archive or destroyed.

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                  TNP
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                  I don’t know. ‘My grandfather took this off the body of a dead Nazi he killed.’ is pretty cool and totally acceptable.

                  ETA: unless it was last year in which case it’s also cool but you shouldn’t brag about it as there’s no statute of limitations.

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                    Pavel @TNP
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                    @TNP said in RL Peeves:

                    I don’t know. ‘My grandfather took this off the body of a dead Nazi he killed.’ is pretty cool and totally acceptable.

                    True, it’d likely depend on what it is. It’s a case-by-case thing, at least my by my reckoning, but I was trying to apply a general idea instead.

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                      GF @TNP
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                      @TNP said in RL Peeves:

                      ETA: unless it was last year in which case it’s also cool but you shouldn’t brag about it as there’s no statute of limitations.

                      It’s very, very funny to me that I understand intellectually you are describing a serial killer who takes trophies from his victims but I’m still okay with it because Nazis.

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                        Pavel @GF
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                        @GF said in RL Peeves:

                        @TNP said in RL Peeves:

                        ETA: unless it was last year in which case it’s also cool but you shouldn’t brag about it as there’s no statute of limitations.

                        It’s very, very funny to me that I understand intellectually you are describing a serial killer who takes trophies from his victims but I’m still okay with it because Nazis.

                        A person who goes around (on the land) killing Nazis specifically isn’t a serial killer, they’re infantry.

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                          TNP
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                          Yesterday I got my flu shot and and Covid booster. Today, I feel like I have the flu. I know it’ll be short and is worth it in the long run.

                          That doesn’t make me feel better.

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                            Tez Administrators @TNP
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                            @TNP I hope you feel better soon.

                            I was pretty surprised by how little I reacted to the bivalent booster / flu combo. I felt fine, overall, although the local reaction / swelling on BOTH has been markedly more pronounced than it usually is for me.

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                              Arkandel @Tez
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                              @Tez The third booster did nothing to me. The forth one took 12 hours out of my life.

                              I think for relatively healthy people Omicron is probably not dangerous (or that’s my understanding of it) but a couple of my - vaccinated - friends did get Covid-19 and did not have a good time, either.

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                                TNP @Arkandel
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                                @Arkandel said in RL Peeves:

                                I think for relatively healthy people Omicron is probably not dangerous (or that’s my understanding of it) but a couple of my - vaccinated - friends did get Covid-19 and did not have a good time, either.

                                Vaccine 1: almost no reaction.
                                Vaccine 2: 4 days of misery.
                                Booster 1: Fluish for a day.
                                2 months later: Covid. Sick as a dog for 2 weeks. But never affected my breathing so never in danger of going to the hospital. They all did their job.
                                Now booster 2. Hopefully a replay of booster 1.

                                Never catching Covid again would be nice but if it keeps me out of the hospital, it’s all worth it.

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                                  Arkandel @TNP
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                                  @TNP For sure, 100%.

                                  For me the biggest risk (other than for elderly or immune-compromised people, of course) is in the long-term consequences.

                                  There are no studies of that yet for obvious reasons but there are reports of lung scar tissue and side-effects that persist well after the symptoms are over.

                                  What will this shit do to us twenty years down the line?

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                                    Pavel
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                                    Additionally, there are some preliminary studies that suggest serious deficits in cognition (Hawke et al., 2022) and in memory formation and retrieval (Guo et al., 2022) with long COVID.

                                    Serious stuff all around.

                                    References:

                                    Guo, P., Benito Ballesteros, A., Yeung, S. P., Liu, R., Saha, A., Curtis, L., Kaser, M., Haggard, M. P., & Cheke, L. G. (2022). COVCOG 2: Cognitive and Memory Deficits in Long COVID: A Second Publication From the COVID and Cognition Study. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 14. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2022.804937

                                    Hawke, L. D., Nguyen, A. T. P., Ski, C. F., Thompson, D. R., Ma, C., & Castle, D. (2022). Interventions for mental health, cognition, and psychological wellbeing in long COVID: a systematic review of registered trials. Psychological Medicine, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0033291722002203

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                                      Testament @Pavel
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                                      @Pavel The scientist in me really appreciates the fact that you cited sources.

                                      I don't know what I'm doing. Poke at Seven Nations sevennations.aresmush.com port 2021

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                                        GF
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                                        There are doubtlessly things that are sadder than patient in a dementia ward talking about how their family is coming to pick them up, but I can’t think of one off the top of my head.

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                                          mietze
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                                          Hubby brought covid home as a souvenir from his biz trip. I dont have it yet but I feel like crap on a cracker that got run over by a semi.

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                                            Since school started I feel like I have caught every bug that I managed to avoid last year. First some kind of stomach bug that had us at the children’s hospital for hours fearing appendicitis in the youngest, but at least when it hit the oldest we were like ‘just throw up a bunch you’ll be fine,’ then I had some kind of flu-like thing (not Covid according to all the tests I did but oof), now I’ve got a head cold. All one right after the other.

                                            I guess I could also blame my commute, since we have to show up in the office two days a week even though we can all clearly do our jobs from home.

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